Outrageous! You Won’t Believe The Leftist Lecture These Soldiers Were Just Subjected To

The Army says it was a mistake, an unauthorized addition to a training session on diversity at Fort Gordon, Ga., where some 400 soldiers were just lectured about the ills that plague society and presumably infect their ranks as a result of “white privilege.”

The Daily Caller reports on “the Equal Opportunity briefing, which was presented to approximately 400 soldiers in the 67th Signal Battalion….”

After a photograph of one of the slides used in the presentation was posted on Facebook, the contents of that slide — entitled “The luxury of obliviousness” — came under heavy fire from outraged commenters who found it presumptuous and insulting.

One item on the controversial slide read: “Race privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans or to how white privilege affects them. ‘To be white in America means not having to think about it.'”

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Among the more noteworthy comments from the torrent of angry reactions that appeared on Facebook were these:

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“I’m appalled and I’m black. This is what perpetuates racism, when you put sh*t like this up on a board and tell all the white people in the room that they’re wrong for being white.”

“I think there needs to be a class on what EO [Equal Opportunity] and Racism actually means.”

“That slide alone warrants an EO complaint.”

“So, I see that certain forms of racism are acceptable. Interesting…and highly ironic.”

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An article in USA Today notes that the Army has launched an investigation into how the instructor for the diversity training briefing “deviated from the authorized topic and content which was provided.”

Of course, perpetuating the belief that “white privilege” is a widespread scourge in America is certainly not limited to errant instructors in the U.S. Armed Forces.

In mid-March, The Daily Caller reported on the vicious attacks directed at members of the tea party movement by a noted lecturer, author, and activist featured at the annual White Privilege Conference held this year in Kentucky.

Leonard Zeskind claimed to be an expert on the “white nationalist movement” and the “white supremacists” who filled the ranks of the “racist” tea party.

According to The DC article, Zeskind told the gathering:

Members of the tea party movement are “screw-loosers” who range from “sort of a generic racism” to “bald-faced racists,” and they tend to become more racist the longer they associate with tea party ideas.

Also, “tea partiers are not overly concerned about the economy,” love “gun rallies,” want power in the hands of white people and hate President Barack Obama because he “broke the white monopoly on the presidency.”